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  1. Australian political party formed by Joseph
  2. Lyons 1931 from the right-wing Nationalist
  3. Party. It was led by Robert Menzies after the
  4. death of Lyons. Considered to have become too
  5. dominated by financial interests, it lost
  6. heavily to the Labor Party 1943, and was
  7. reorganized as the Liberal Party 1944.
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